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Health Coaching

For people with long-term health conditions

Our evidence-based self-management health coaching supports people to manage their health and wellbeing and enhances the quality of their consultations with healthcare professionals.

This has been shown to increase levels of mental health, lead to better health outcomes and reduce demand on clinical appointments.

The health coaching (which can be quickly and easily set up in any locality):

Unlocks the power of the individual to take charge of their health and wellbeing;

Improves the quality of consultations with healthcare professionals and enables the potential for truly shared decisions to be made about a person's health and wellbeing;

Comprises approximately five sessions with a health coach (with follow up a month after);

Is integrated seamlessly into GP practices as a normalised part of a patient's healthcare experience (and can also be delivered through other channels);

Is run through the service's own online system that provides communications and resources for self-management. This also enables Self-Management Reports to be sent back into patient records and (anonymised) data to be produced for commissioners for service planning;

Is assessed through a number of measurements including: impact on number of clinical appointments; change in patient activation measurements (e.g. PAM); patient stories and feedback;

Health Coaching Update: a newsletter for commissioners and health professionals on the latest developments in health coaching in Lewes.

KYOH provide all the key components for the successful implementation of self-management support, including personalised health coaching, self-management communications and localised digital infrastructure, and all the training and supervision needed to establish a high-quality supported self-management service.